NEWSLETTER 20 SEPTEMBER 2005
1) Doping and the international mafia
2) Play the Game 2005 already has more than 200 participants from 46 countries
3) Journalism – an unconscious lubricant of the sports complex
4) Conference on sport and religion
5) Seminar on sports research and private lives
1) Doping and the international mafia
Sandro Donati, head of research at the Italian Olympic Committee, began his fight against doping by protesting the doping of elite athletes. Now he is increasingly concerned about the dispersion of doping to other groups of athletes. As a member of an Italian taskforce he has set out to document illegal trafficking with doping on a global scale in order to determine how deeply the international mafia is involved in the trade.
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2) Play the Game 2005 already has more than 200 participants from 46 countries
With seven weeks to go, Play the Game 2005 can count on more than 200 participants from 46 countries. This already makes the conference – and the network participants can plug into – on par with Play the Game 2002. But we expect numbers to grow further.
The programme also continues to develop. Depending on a successful visa application, Hai Ren, Director of the Olympic Studies Centre at Beijing University has confirmed that he will present the Chinese view on what the country hopes to achieve from hosting the Olympic Games in 2008. He will be joined in the debate on China and the Olympic Games by academic expert Susan Brownell, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA, and Brad Adams, director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division.
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3) Journalism – an unconscious lubricant of the sports complex
On Wednesday 14 September, Play the Game celebrated the official opening of its office at the Danish School of Journalism with a day of lectures and a reception for invited guests.
Play the Game was welcomed warmly by the director of the Danish School of Journalism, Kim Minke. He hopes that Play the Game will ensure that journalism becomes less of an unconscious lubricant of the sports complex.
4) Conference on sport and religion
October 28 and 29, 2005, the St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA, will host the second international conference on “Sport and Religion: An Inquiry into Cultural Values.” The conference will gather scholars, coaches and theologians from Europe and th US to examine the tensions between religion and sport, the ethics and values manifested in sport, and historical influences of religious traditions on sport.
Read more about the conference at its website
5) Seminar on sports research and private lives
Two Danish universities organise a one-day seminar on sports research and the private lives of athletes on 11 November immediately after the Play the Game conference. The organisers want to discuss research into the impact that sport has on the private lives of athletes.
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